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Shield AI, the defense-technology company using self-driving software to enable collaborative teams of unmanned aircraft to operate in GPS- and RF-denied environments, announced it has signed a contract with VSK Tactical, through reseller and facilitator Contingent Global, to provide Brazil with V-BAT 128 unmanned aircraft systems.
President Tayyip Erdogan discussed tensions between Ukraine and Russia with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday, after pitching Turkey as a mediator, and an official said he was not picking any sides in the crisis. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. successfully tested advanced datalink capability as part of a U.S. Army-funded development effort to upgrade the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range Unmanned Aircraft System . Continue reading
The U.S. Navy is leading what it bills as the world’s largest unmanned maritime exercise in a region where its sailing drones have already been patrolling busy shipping lanes used by arms and drug traffickers. Continue reading
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, announced the Autonomous Pod Transport’s (APT) successful demonstration of a ground-based Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) flight, fulfilling an extension for its NASA Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) project. Continue reading
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., is a “No Drone Zone” for Super Bowl LVI. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will prohibit drones within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the stadium up to 18,000 feet in altitude. Continue reading
The FW 200 Condor was never originally intended for military use, it started its career as a long-range commercial airliner, one that showed great promise. However, the outbreak of the second world war saw it used by the German Luftwaffe as a long-range reconnaissance and maritime patrol aircraft. Continue reading